1st pictures with all 5 K-B kids

I tried to take a few pictures of my kiddos this afternoon.  Let me tell ya that it is harder than you think to try to get 5 children to all smile at once for a picture.  Here are some of the "bloopers":

This one I think is one of the only ones that turned out good:

 Here it is in color:

I'm not sure which one I like better b&w or color.

Baby Jonah's birth story

Jonah is 2 weeks and 1 day old today. I haven't had a chance to until now to blog about him and share some photos. So, where do I start? Jonah was born June 22 at 11:07am. I woke up that morning with very mild contractions. I told Justin he should probably stay home from work just in case. I also called my mom to tell her that today might be the day and she should come over to our house instead of going to work. She arrived at our house somewhere around 8 something. We were still packing our bags and getting things ready to go. I called the nurse and she told us we should head in to the hospital right away. That really surprised me because my contractions were still 5 min. apart and they were not to painful yet. Shortly after that we were on our way down to Methodist Hospital in Saint Louis Park. So, that took at least 35-40 min. By the time we arrived at the hospital my contractions were getting worse. I had been using a really cool free contraction counter/timer app for the i phone. By the time we got up to the baby/birth floor I guess they figured I was so experienced or something that they didn't have to check me or anything for admitting they just took me right to the delivery room. By the time the nurse hooked me up to the monitor it was 10am. That's about the time the contractions started getting really bad. That's also when she checked me for the first time. I was already 8cm dilated. I was told that if they were to break by water now the baby would probably be able to start pushing right away. I don't think I was mentally prepared for that yet so I declined. About 30 min. later they ended up breaking my water anyway and then he was born a little over a half hour later at 8 pounds 15 ounces and a little over 22 inches long. By the time of discharge he was down to 8 pounds 6 ounces. Even that was big for me. All of my other babies were all within 2 ounces of 8 pounds. We named him Jonah (meaning man of peace) and Tobias(meaning God is good) Kittelson-Burke. Here are a few of the first pictures of Jonah:

hot tub

A friend of mine gave us this hot tub last fall. We just recently got around to actually hooking it up. We are still temporarily testing it out to see if it's something we would like to keep or not. So far we are having a great time in it!

baby update

Still no baby. Actually, my due date has changed a bit from the 12th to the 17th of June. It's kind of a long story. Basically, I have had three ultrasounds during my pregnancy two with an EDD of 6/12 and one with a EDD of 6/17. Since the EDD 6/17 was the first one they are sticking with that due date. So who knows it might still be a few more days.

James in the water

I just thought these pictures are so cute of James.

Memorial Day Weekend the second time around

Memorial Day weekend marks the 1 year anniversary of this blog. I don't always update regularly of have much to say, but, let me tell you that it is really cool to be able to look back a year ago and see little snip-its of our family. Here is the K-B's a year ago: Memorial Day Weekend 2009, James seems so little here, Shane just lost his first tooth.

We had another great Memorial Day weekend this year! We got a lot of cleaning done, had friends over for a bonfire, hung out at Jimmy and Margie's, and enjoyed the extra day to just hang out.

9 months pregnant

I thought I would post a few 9 month belly shots before the new baby comes. Their are 11 days left until my due date.